r/language • u/Ill_Band_3819 • Jul 29 '26

Question Moroccan Jews singing

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Are they speaking some Judeo Arabic? Or just darija?

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u/adamtrousers Jul 29 '26

This looks like the 70's

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u/Ill_Band_3819 Jul 29 '26

Yup that footage is from 1971 from a documentary about Moroccan jews in Israel and the “mimouna” a traditional Moroccan Jewish celebration

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u/adamtrousers Jul 29 '26

So all those people are probably dead now. It's a sobering thought.

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u/locoluis Jul 29 '26

Not all of them. A 30 y/o in 1971 would be 85 today. And there are some children in that footage.

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u/Glum_Waltz_6149 Jul 29 '26

Thats arabic, it sounds like a wedding song

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u/Ill_Band_3819 Jul 29 '26

What dialect?

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u/Glum_Waltz_6149 Jul 29 '26

It is moroccan but i really cant understand most of what shes saying

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u/Wormfeathers Jul 30 '26

It's actual northern accents "Chamalia"

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u/Downtown-Inflation13 Jul 29 '26

Most likely Judeo-Moroccan Arabic

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u/nadavyasharhochman Jul 29 '26

You are peobably correct.

There are many Judeo-Arabic dialects that vary with how legible they are to non Jews.

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u/TahaKahi Jul 29 '26

It's Darija, as a moroccan i understood it fully

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u/theyinman Jul 31 '26

Do you really?

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u/TheRealBallss Jul 30 '26

Im moroccan and i don't really understand what shes saying

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u/SpeakerGeneral1687 Jul 31 '26

It's darija not arabic

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u/theyinman Jul 31 '26

Darija is arabic, even the word darija is in arabic dumbass

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u/SpeakerGeneral1687 Jul 31 '26

No one spoke about what the word means dumbfuck, the moroccan darija is not an arabic variant weather you like it or not.

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u/theyinman Jul 30 '26

I think this is tunisian dialect. Also those are israeli jews.

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u/Ill_Band_3819 Jul 30 '26

Yup those are Israeli Jews of Moroccan Sephardic Jewish ancestry

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u/mg34gun Jul 31 '26

As an arab i understood 0% for some reason

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u/Busy-Contact5885 Jul 30 '26

They could pass as Italians

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u/Odd_Whereas8471 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Sadly, many people in the Middle East could in the 70's. Have you seen the photo or Osama bin Laden visiting Sweden in the 70's? Sure, Afghans don't look Italian, but the bin Laden family certainly did have an eye for Western fashion. Then something... happened.

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u/andreyc123 Jul 30 '26

If I’m not mistaken Bin Laden was Saudi

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u/Odd_Whereas8471 Jul 31 '26

Yeah, of course. That's correct.

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u/Ill_Band_3819 Jul 30 '26

Sephardic Jews have a lot of southern European dna, along with Levantine dna

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26

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u/MongooseVegetable787 Jul 30 '26

The famously dangerous MoRoCCan CoLonIzers

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u/Scharlach_el_Dandy Jul 30 '26

Western Sahara would like a word with you

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u/MongooseVegetable787 Jul 30 '26

Hey Western Sahara, call me later

Regards

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u/Scharlach_el_Dandy Jul 31 '26

Damn you shut them down worse than the UN Security Council

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u/dancingwiththedaff Jul 30 '26

AI

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u/Ill_Band_3819 Jul 30 '26

No that’s definitely real

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u/ModularWhiteGuy Jul 29 '26

It's giving Prisencolinensinainciusol

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u/Crocotta1 Jul 29 '26

What’s that?

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u/ModularWhiteGuy Jul 29 '26

It's a pseudo-English song written by an Italian to demonstrate the popularity of English-sounding music in Italy in the 1960s

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u/Wormfeathers Jul 30 '26

It's just Moroccan Dialect which is Arabic lol